Telecom may be old. But it’s not boring.

March 8, 2011

We all go through phases of a career where a little boredom or a sense of routine kicks in, especially those who stay in the same industry for decades at a time. So when I say that lately I was feeling a little of this myself, I do so with no shame. This year marks plural [...]

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Startups continue to spread wings.

February 1, 2011

This week, if the alleged ‘Storm of the Century’ allows, myself and many others will be traveling to Miami (where the weather is superb) for a week of networking, fun and a bunch of ‘other’ at the East installment of ITExpo. And for the third time in succession, my partner at Embrase, Phil Telio, and I [...]

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EmergComm Entrepreneurs fire up $45M+ in Q4.

January 3, 2011

Image by xharekx33 via Flickr What a difference a year can make. Scratch that…comparing 2009 to 2010 is b-o-r-i-n-g. But the closing quarter of 2010 was anything but boring for a growing crop of entrepreneurs in the emerging communications sector. In 2008 I wrote often about the surge of new blood entering the communications space, many [...]

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StartupCamp gets Googled: Craig Walker & Company to Keynote

December 28, 2010

Image via CrunchBase As I have mentioned before, the recipe for a successful StartupCamp Comms is fairly straightforward. Not always easy to pull off, but at least the formula is simple: 1. An engaging keynote speaker with tales to tell and from whom the audience can learn something. James Siminoff (’10 – Miami) and Jeff [...]

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10 years later…This is not your Father’s Earthlink.

December 20, 2010

Remember when Earthlink was THE VoIP company. In 2001 when VoIP meant anything but reliable and mainstream, Earthlink poured themselves into what was a nascent market, betting on the come that packaging fast growing DSL with cheap voice would be a winner. While Earthlink contributed significantly to early adoption and education around VoIP (in their case [...]

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Naughty or Nice, J2Global Might Come-a-Knocking.

December 14, 2010

It’s not every day that a Canadian company gets acquired for north of $200M, much less one in the telecom space. But it can happen, as evidenced by last week’s announced purchase of Ottawa-based ProtusIP by J2Global for a cool $213M. ProtusIP providers a variety of small business communications services, including fax, email marketing and its [...]

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RingRevenue Ring$ in the Holidays.

November 30, 2010

Image via CrunchBase Just in time for the holidays, RingRevenue has completed its next round of financing. A trailblazer in enabling advertisers to profitably integrate phone calls into their processes, today’s news suggests strongly the company has indeed proved out their model. This morning’s announcement reads: Marketing company RingRevenue has rased $4 million in venture capital financing, bringing its [...]

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This week in Voice M&A: Inflation may be coming at last.

November 4, 2010

For the last year, few conversations have gone by without someone pondering when the ‘roll-up’ would inevitably start in the hosted voice space. But in 2009, while many may have poked around, the opportunities were more so to pick off distressed properties than to invest in real scale or product line expansion. People were nervous, [...]

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Let the Good Times Roll: BroadSoft Connections 2010.

October 29, 2010

There is little glamor in business travel these days. Airport security is like checking into prison, the planes are all packed and there always seems to be someone ahead of you in the upgrade line. But every once in a while your work takes you somewhere that makes the grind seem worth it. For me, [...]

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All I wanted for my birthday was a lousy phone call.

October 13, 2010

Yes, I must be old if that’s all I wanted. But this year (and rest assured that while it may seem this way, this post is not about my birthday) when it was all said and done, a good old-fashioned phone call is the one thing I came dangerously close to not getting. Now, this [...]

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